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<blockquote data-quote="Voobaha" data-source="post: 1167309" data-attributes="member: 2741"><p><strong>yup.</strong></p><p></p><p>The whole book was Greyhawk-Based. Gygax wrote it as a story on one page, with a facing illustration of the story and characters on the opposite page. It was a big book too...coffee table book sized w/a softcover. </p><p></p><p>The story was of a large party of adventurers and their assorted henchmen meeting at the Green Griffon Inn on the shores of the Nyr Dyv, planning a classic hi-level D&D dungeon crawl. It was very much designed to get new gamers into the game.</p><p></p><p>The party encounters lots of Gygax-ish "everything but the kitchen sink" encounters in the dungeon, which showcase different aspects of the D&D game. At one point, they use a gem of seeing to see what's down several branching corridors, and one room leads to hell, where Demogorgon is indeed holding court. (Pretty cool for a kids' book, huh?)</p><p></p><p>They also encounter a beholder and end up fighting Tiamat guarding a gigantic Smaug-the-dragon sized treasure trove.</p><p></p><p>One other cool thing: the center of the album had a dungeon crawl game that adapted the dungeon map from the 1st (blue cover) Basic D&D book sample dungeon. You charted your pre-gen character's path through the top-view map and randomly flipped the book open to a page to generate random numbers (there were dice and game rules in the margins of each page). </p><p></p><p>It's too bad nobody seems to be making these kinds of products to get young gamers off the playstation and into RPGing anymore. After I got a hold of this book, I certainly was hooked!</p><p></p><p>I'll try to scan them over the next few days (work has me pretty busy right now). Please pardon the 9-year old coloring <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voobaha, post: 1167309, member: 2741"] [b]yup.[/b] The whole book was Greyhawk-Based. Gygax wrote it as a story on one page, with a facing illustration of the story and characters on the opposite page. It was a big book too...coffee table book sized w/a softcover. The story was of a large party of adventurers and their assorted henchmen meeting at the Green Griffon Inn on the shores of the Nyr Dyv, planning a classic hi-level D&D dungeon crawl. It was very much designed to get new gamers into the game. The party encounters lots of Gygax-ish "everything but the kitchen sink" encounters in the dungeon, which showcase different aspects of the D&D game. At one point, they use a gem of seeing to see what's down several branching corridors, and one room leads to hell, where Demogorgon is indeed holding court. (Pretty cool for a kids' book, huh?) They also encounter a beholder and end up fighting Tiamat guarding a gigantic Smaug-the-dragon sized treasure trove. One other cool thing: the center of the album had a dungeon crawl game that adapted the dungeon map from the 1st (blue cover) Basic D&D book sample dungeon. You charted your pre-gen character's path through the top-view map and randomly flipped the book open to a page to generate random numbers (there were dice and game rules in the margins of each page). It's too bad nobody seems to be making these kinds of products to get young gamers off the playstation and into RPGing anymore. After I got a hold of this book, I certainly was hooked! I'll try to scan them over the next few days (work has me pretty busy right now). Please pardon the 9-year old coloring :) [/QUOTE]
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